On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 20:51 +0200, "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" wrote: > installing the easytag package adds an entry to my /etc/mailcap file, > that registers easytag as a program to "display non-text [directories] > at the local site" (from mailcap(5), with a clarification by me in > brackets). > now i think that this is the main problem: easytag's desktop files > declares that it *can* handle directories. (i guess the use case is that > in your favourite filesystem browser you ought to be able to right-click > on a directory and be presented with a list of applications that could > handle that directory; having easytag in that list makes total sense to > me). however, this declaration somehow makes the package installation > process believe that it *should* handle directories (which is plain > wrong), by adding an entry to /etc/mailcap. > > most likely the problem is with the packaging (not necessarily the > easytag package per se, but maybe the tools used). > > according to update-mime(8), it *is* possible to add priorities to > mime-types (for exactly the kind of problem we are facing). > right now, easytag does not do anything special to register the > mime-type handler, so it seems that the packaging should actively lower > the priority.
I think you could reorder the easytag entries in /etc/mailcap by doing some stuff with update-mime. However it won't fix this problem because desktop environments (including xdg-open and gnome-open) don't read /etc/mailcap, they read the mimeapps.list files. I can't see any way to set priorities for those (only user and desktop environment overrides). http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/mime-apps-spec-1.0.1.html Thanks, James
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